Bill Burr Quotes
For aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny.
Quotes to Explore
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
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I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
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Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.
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For aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny.
